I don't see the benefit of Cadillac at all. IF you're doing those things, Cadillac is still useless. The benefit doesn't come from Cadillac, it comes from the L going ball side when appropriate.

I still don't believe that they're actually working Cadillac. That mechanic died with the dodo bird and I've officiated in 5 states since it did.

Question for him:

If you inbound the ball on the right side of the floor (facing the offense's end line), are you expected to cross over the floor during the live ball or do you just work the T from that side?

Cause Cadillac means you're expected to cross over at your first opportunity and the L will respond by crossing over as well.

Now I have to look up this Cadillac thing. It sounds ridiculous.

My guess is that they appropriated that term from the days of the dodo bird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaOp8vs317c

11:13 mark of this video is a perfect example of this.

39:33 is an inbounds in the "right" corner and the trail official immediately moves to the left. Unseen is the L, who started right and switched sides when the trail did.

maybe teams used to be extremely right-handed. That can make Cadillac more effective by reducing the times L needs to cross-over.

But, I agree that it hasn't been useful for 20 years or so.

AT 11:13, why do the officials switch sides of the floor? Is the goal to always have the Trail on the ball side?

That's how things were done in 1987. The goal was to have the officials "go left" at the first convenient opportunity.

I enjoyed watching this, mainly cause this was my first year as a HS official.

No. The goal is to always have the players on the officials right (I think -- it's been a long time)

I also noticed the trail signaling the successful two-point goal at 39:47.

Then there's the collars.

And there it is, the trail administering the first free throw at 51:02.

A: We cross over the floor, though L always starts left in that situation. Conversely, if the throw-in is frontcourt sideline left, the L starts positioned on his right (i.e. strong side....just like in 3-p). I suppose that latter part is a slight modification to the Cadillac of old. All in all, however, the way we do 2-p helps give our new officials a feel for rotations so that the switch to 3-p mechanics later comes more naturally.


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I don't think this follows at all.

That's right. I remember when we were allowed to not signal the made baskets as the trail. Believe it or not, some officials were opposed to that.

It does in L. Our 2-p L behaves just like a 3-p L.

T…not so much. T's home base is left, but he's all over the place and when L rotates over right, T moves above the key to view the weak side.


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Much of that should happen whether you work Cadillac or not.